From the better-late-than-never department, it's time for Memories of the Futurecast. Memories of the Future, Volume One, covers the first 13 episodes of TNG, so each week, I'm choosing something from one episode, and performing an excerpt for you. It will mostly be from the synopses, which i...

I don't think Gil can help himself. The spoilers just kind of blurt out. I think it's caused by wearing his white spandex costume just a LITTLE too tight in Buck Rogers. It put some undue pressure on his brain.
Erin Grey however, well... that's a whole different story RAWR!

My table in the vendor's room at the Phoenix Comicon was right next to Aaron Douglas. Aaron is a good friend, and he knows that I'm a huge fan of his show and admirer of his work. He also knows that I'm way behind on BSG (near the end of season 3) so he's made this heroic effort to protect me fr...

The Mrs. and I have had the chance to go to the Experience twice, including last year for the Big Honkin' Convention, where we met Wil on a few occasions. I must say it'll be sorely missed, unless they find a new home for it somewhere (How 'bout Montreal, home-town of WFS?)
One of the many highlights of our trip, was listening to the Enterprise Blues Band in the lounge above Quark's Bar. What a night that was!

It was bound to happen sooner or later, and though I've known this was coming for a few months now, I was still really sad to read confirmation that Star Trek: The Experience is closing September first. Offering a sad commentary on the state of the Star Trek franchise, the Hilton Hotel in Las V...

Cool story!
The Mrs (MrSpock) and I are hooked big-time on Rock Band, after having it for a couple weeks, and she hates video games!
We had some friends over on the weekend and we played for hours. We were pretty HAWESOME by the end of the night. I played Creep on Hard guitar, without practicing and got 88% (Go me!)
The Ghost Town Rödents <-- Shameless plug, and play on The Boomtown Rats

Last night, Anne and I took our friend out to dinner for his birthday. We invited Nolan to come with us, but he said it would be "boring grown-up talking" and even though he loved us, he'd rather hang out at home. Allow me to translate: "Wait, I can go with three lame adults to a restaurant, or ...

Great story Wil,
MrSpock and I still feel your reading of Justice and BLS at the VegasCon '07 was one of *THE* highlights of our week.
Don't know if we mentioned it in person or not, but MrS even went up to the brass before your show started there to ask if they could fix their damn typo in your name on the projector before it started. I still laugh thinking of the "go to hell" look we got from them.
Walter seemed like a really approachable person in Vegas too, although when I crossed paths with him at some point in the hotel, I had a homina-homina-homina moment :/

(Continued from part one) I read Hammered when I got back to my room until I couldn't keep my eyes open any more, and had one of those awesome nights where I woke up every hour because I was afraid I'd oversleep. In fact, I was so afraid of oversleeping, I set an alarm and a wakeup call on my ce...

If I would've known of your affinity for the french language, I'da whipped out a few catch phrases in Vegas. The mrs. (MrSpock) is a native Kébéker, and I've become quite fluent myself in the last 10 years of freezing my ASS off in Montreal.

One of Jonathan Coulton's fans sent him a French translation of RE: Your Brains. JoCo (which I suppose I need to call him now, since that's what his fans call him, and I'm quite obviously a fan) recorded the French version, and released it yesterday: While recording I couldn’t help but notice an...

Just to play devil's advocate, but in NO WAY support or justify the current administration:
1) SITE posted this "classified" information on a public server, without any security/authentication? They could have put filters on who had access (IP masks, etc) They might as well have put it on YouTube
2) I can see why they would have wanted to alert the administration early, if the video contained any new useful information, especially specific threats to US interests. Seeing as how it was just more propaganda bullshit, it seems more like SITE was saying "neener neener, look what we found first"
3) Having said that, I can just imagine the big-wigs in the administration, MSNing their minions at CIA/NSA/ABC/NBC/CNN going "omgomgomgomg look at this, but don't pass it along *wink*"

Wow. A small private intelligence company that monitors Islamic terrorist groups obtained a new Osama bin Laden video ahead of its official release last month, and around 10 a.m. on Sept. 7, it notified the Bush administration of its secret acquisition. It gave two senior officials access on the...

As the old saying goes "Too much, is like not enough". I can sort of understand people that take shortcuts to send text messages in a hurry, especially if they're on a tiny keypad. However, what REALLY gives me the creeps, is people who take the time, especially in IM, to type "okay"....
It's just not human I tell ya! (oops)

My Ocean beeped at me, announcing the arrival of a text message from my younger son, Nolan. I opened it up and read, “mom will b gon ur goin 2 din thing rite but 5 is fine then k.” I turned the phone around in my hands, and wondered if maybe I some packets had been dropped during transmission. T...

@Offshored2007: Actually, the quotes on that site missed the "best" part. While on stage, in what I "think" was a mock tirade against JJ Abrams, Shatner went so far as to say something along the lines of "And he's a stupid 'lil shit for not casting me". To this, Nimoy replied, "That's no way to make friends Billy."
He did seem a bit red-faced at the photo op, but the photographer made us all look like ghosts... colors washed out on the pictures (see rants in another post)
Happy you made it in the paper Wil. :thumbs up:

Wow, this is really cool: "The Trek Life" cartoonist David Reddick appeared once again at Creation Entertainment's official "Star Trek" convention, held this month in Las Vegas. Among the "Trek" series stars also there were William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Kate Mulgrew, and Wil Wheaton. I met Dav...

On my DVD collection website, there's a very true cartoon image of a man and woman exiting the theater, saying "We should have waited for it to come out on video... Our screen is bigger"
This is pretty much my philosophy. I bet we haven't been to 5 movies in the past 5 years. 110" Screen, 800 watt THX sound, AND we don't have to pay $20 for a bag of stale popcorn and watered down Coke!! All this on a relatively modest budget.
It even makes movies like Python look good!! :D

A few years ago, we bought a spiffy home theater system, complete with the surround sound and the HDTV and the comfy chairs. I'm sure it's a coincidence that this matches up almost exactly with when we stopped going out to the movies except for extremely special events. I know this is different ...

As if the WFS/Nimoy experience wasn't infuriating enough already, the night just kept on getting better (Glad the Mrs. brought it up so I can vent a bit more) Several of us suckers show up in the dealer room at 6PM to claim our photos on time. The volunteer informs us that they're late (what a suprise) but that they'll be here between 7 and 7:30. We walk back towards the photo-op area to see about online ordering. The guy there says "nope, they won't be out tonight. Won't be here in time, and its too risky to put them out late at night" WTF? Can't these people get their story straight? He even says "With the Shatner/Nimoy/Shatner-Nimoy photo ops, we're talking close to 2000 shots to get developed" Do the math people: That's from a quarter, to nearly half a million bucks. And they said their photo ops were "Extremely Limited"
On a hunch, I swing back by the dealer room between 7 and 7:30 and guess what? The story has changed once again! The photos will be here between 8 and 8:30 with a special area set up to claim them until 9:30. At 9:15 on the last day of the convention, after standing around with another 200 extremely patient fans instead of relaxing after another long day, I finally have my grubby hands on our photo. On the back, I swear to god, the name of the lab is: Michael's PhotoLab (Must be right next to the Kwik-E-Mart)
We had a good time.. honest!
C_Doc, aka Mr. MrSpock

This summer, I've been to a lot of conventions, way more than usual, and I've been thinking about ways to make conventions awesome (again) for fans and guests alike. This week's Geek in Review is an incomplete list of rules for conventions that I'd pass if I were King of the Universe: Rule One:...

Have to share my anecdote about the Con:
Our experience at the Vegas Con was super, as far as the guests were concerned... Yes, except for one (don't panic Wil, you were cool) It came in the dealer room, where we'd bought someone's CD and they were very gracious, and even personalized and signed it for me (us). Don't know why I didn't think of it at the time, but I didn't ask for a photo. The next day, we went by the same person's booth, and were waiting behind a guy who was getting an autograph. The person's assistant started climbing all over me saying "NONONO, no pictures unless you BUY something!!"
So I politely said that I'd bought something the previous day. The "star" then jumped in, saying "Well you'll just have to get in line and wait until I finish with this person", which was what I was doing before being accosted. They even apologized to the other fan for the "rude interruption". Needless to say, we turned around and walked off. I SERIOUSLY thought about bringing their CD back to them, without asking for a refund.
Other than that, everyone else at the Con was very cool (especially Wil, Vaughn & Casey)
And yes, I *can* be bribed into telling who the "star" was ;)

This summer, I've been to a lot of conventions, way more than usual, and I've been thinking about ways to make conventions awesome (again) for fans and guests alike. This week's Geek in Review is an incomplete list of rules for conventions that I'd pass if I were King of the Universe: Rule One:...

Ps, Yes, just as in school, I messed up my question as well! Should have said "Wil! If you could have chosen your own accessory, would it have been a HAT or a BAT?"
Mini-Review: Wil owned the speakers. Nimoy is *the* quintessential STAR of Star Trek (Just ask James from Honolulu) and the Enterprise Blues Band are da bomb! (Look them up)

I'm still pretty wiped out from the Big Honkin' Vegas Convention, but it's a good, satisfied type of exhaustion. If you were there, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the whole thing. Here are mine . . . Thursday Arrived in the afternoon after making Ryan listen to The Transformed Man in the car ...

Ya know how the day after you get beat up at school, when you THEN think of something REALLY awesome you COULD have said?? Well, I was that way, the day after asking Wil about seeing his own action figure in the stores for the first time. Here goes: Wil! If you could have chosen an accessory for your action figure, would it have been a towel, or a bat?

I'm still pretty wiped out from the Big Honkin' Vegas Convention, but it's a good, satisfied type of exhaustion. If you were there, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the whole thing. Here are mine . . . Thursday Arrived in the afternoon after making Ryan listen to The Transformed Man in the car ...

I just (re)confirmed that there is free wireless access in the Las Vegas Hilton too! Trek geeks rejoice!
Fortuna restaurant offers 24 hour free wi-fi. We'll see how good their range is (unless you have to buy a $20 coffee to get a login)

McCarran has free, open wireless, or at least gate 24 does. I've joined the dozen or so people sitting on the floor along the wall with open laptops. I've done this trip hundreds of times, and the departing passengers on a Sunday are remarkably consistent: The guy with the hangover. The guy on ...

Excellent! I was wondering if I'd have wi-fi access upon arrival. Too BIG, my laptop for the TrekCon trip, so I have my Tungsten E2 STUFFED with wireless apps. Should be cool. Email, Web, FTP, IM
I'll look like the Trek Geek that I am, with something very similar to a tricorder *snort*

McCarran has free, open wireless, or at least gate 24 does. I've joined the dozen or so people sitting on the floor along the wall with open laptops. I've done this trip hundreds of times, and the departing passengers on a Sunday are remarkably consistent: The guy with the hangover. The guy on ...

Wil! Are you as PSYCHED about the TrekCon in Vegas as we are? Tried to meet you in Montreal, but after 2 hours stuck in traffic to pick up my wife, she said you'd left already. WELL, we're flying clear across North America (no, not just to see you..That'd be more than slightly scary) to spend the week in Vegas. If we don't get the chance to count Trek Babes together, I might just do something drastic, like throw my Wesley action figure from the roof of the Stratosphere! ;)

Ryan came down from LA this morning, and we spent the day wandering around the con. I was really looking forward to hanging out with him and getting our geek on, but I think we were both disappointed with the day. It was sold out today, so by two in the afternoon, it was incredibly difficult to ...